Thunderbird attach files (was Re: General desktop questions)

[Alex]

Hi,

>> I think I can also now attribute instant lock-up of Thunderbird to
>> this approach. I browsed to the .gvfs directory, and poof, Thunderbird
>> locked, taking my email composition down with it. It's almost like
>> it's waiting for an event to occur that will never happen, like access
>> to the device.
>
> I've not been following this thread so maybe the point has already been
> raised, but note that .gvfs is not a "real" directory, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS. Apps which don't expect this might
> give surprising results.

Looks like it's a confirmed bug for more than three years, at least with Ubuntu:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbird/+bug/105088

Regards,
Alex